Reply #48: Guess what? I actually agree with ALMOST everything you said here: [View All]

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...Anyone can look at everything he has done in the past two years and see that he is EASILY diametrically opposed to the Clinton agenda.

Let's see, who actually TOOK A STAND on Iraq and called for the withdrawal, much to the chagrin of the Clinton/Reid crowd? That would be Kerry.

On that and every other issue, Kerry has been on the LEFT side of things, often putting him in direct opposition to the appeasement wing of the Democratic party.

I AGREE He has mostly gone against the DLC agenda in the past two years.

I AGREE He did take a courageous stand on Iraq.

I AGREE On almost every issue he has been on the opposite side of things from the "appeasement crowd".


I also like and respect you, my friend, a lot. I'm sorry to be a vexation to your spirit, believe me. I have always found your willingness to discuss things with me, rather than go off on me so mature and refreshing. But, I can understand how my position could be driving you up a tree at this point. I admit that. The reason for my still insisting on Kerry's leaving the DLC is this: For me, and I admit, this is only my position -- I speak for no one else here but myself -- there are no degrees of DLC-ness. It's like being pregnant -- either you are or your not. There is not "a little pregnant, as the saying goes. For me, you either are DLC or you aren't. His remaining on their roster gives me pause for taking anything he does or says seriously. Until he can look the DLC in the eye, and say to them as courageously as he's taked about Iraq or other things lately, I only feel like I'm being "had". I feel like heh's still trying to have things both ways. To be frank, I'm dying to see him do this definitive thing once and for all to show all of us he really did take his loss seriously, and is willing to make the big changes needed to get most who are so disappointed with him at least in the mood to listen again. This one gesture would go, for me, a long way to that end.


That's how things stand for me.


TC